Lisa’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2009)

Lisa’s comments from the Should have read classics group.

Hello and welcome to the group Ellie! I hope that you enjoy it.

Nilgun wrote: "Christine wrote: "I have been pleasantly surprised by this book. I have tried to read Jules Verne, and not made any headway. I thought that would happen again, but once I made it to page three, I w..."

That would be great words to live by! Must file that away.

Hello and welcome to both of you Jonathan and Gaijinmama! I hope that you enjoy the group and find some wonderful new reads.
By the way, Jonathan, can you even ride a kangaroo or is that like cow tipping, not very feasible?

Thanks to everyone that participated in the book battle. I hope that you enjoyed it and read some new books that you would not have thought about before! We will announce the winner once I find out where I put my list of answers to my questions.:}

I could be off base since I have yet to even start the book, but when I read War and Peace, the aristocracy all spoke French as a way to separate themselves from the lower classes. Even in that book, the Russian's seem to be really enamored with the French. Just an observation that I remember from that book.

I have to agree with you Vicky it is a matter of taste. I guess my taste does not run to Faulkner, but he does have an interesting writing style so I can see why he is relevant.

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Zuzana wrote: "Cleo wrote: "Wow, it looks like I may not be able to participate in this one. All the library copies are in use and Amazon.ca has a ship date of 2-5 weeks. Blah! :-P I'm really disappointed. I ..."

You read my mind Zuzana! I like your schedule, sometimes my thinking and my doing don't overlap. I will try to get better at getting the threads up sooner!

Cleo wrote: "Wow, it looks like I may not be able to participate in this one. All the library copies are in use and Amazon.ca has a ship date of 2-5 weeks. Blah! :-P I'm really disappointed. I thought I mig..."

If you have an ereader, you can get a free download off of Gutenburg.org.

Emily wrote: "Congratulations. I still reading my first giveaway book."

Congrats to you also Emily! Way to go ladies!

Vicky wrote: "I won a book, I won a book!!! As if my to read list wasn't long enough as it is! But it's my first giveaway win!"

Woohoo! Congratulations! What book did you win?

I hate to say this, but I have read two of Faulkner's books and I hated both of them.

Hey, hey, hey! Guess who is the new group read for February!

Thanks everyone for voting at the last minute, and I hope that you enjoy the newest group read. I only have the Jackie Chan movie for reference,so this should be fun!

The voting was close, but after two rounds of voting, the winner of the group read has finally been chosen! I'm looking forward to this one since I really liked The Woman in White.

The winner of the voting is The Moonstone! Thanks for voting everyone!

Laurie wrote: "I've seen a couple of mentions about the poll email? I didn't get one, and don't see it in the email settings. I'm wondering if it is because I get digests instead of individual emails. I voted thi..."

I tried something new this time, so I did not send out an email, but for the next one I will. I would have to agree with you Gayle, about the amount of people participating, the poll votes went from 95 to 35 so that was interesting. Of course, it could be that we had good books to choose from as well! :)

Works for me! I will make it until Monday.

I must say that this has never happened before! We can either vote again or just take the next three months and read those books for them.

Hello and welcome to the group Jayme! I hope that you enjoy it and also enjoy the discussions! Happy reading!